Recountyng commoditis of many a straunge nacyon; 1500

Who redyth it ones wolde rede it agayne;

Sex volumis engrosid together it doth containe:

But when of the laurell she made rehersall,

All orators and poetis, with other grete and smale,

Millia millium et decies millies centena millia, &c.: Apocalipsis. Virtute[1860] senatum laureati possident: Ecclesiastica. Cauiť.

A thowsande thowsande. I trow, to my dome,

Triumpha, triumpha! they cryid all aboute;

Of trumpettis and clariouns the noyse went to Rome;

The starry heuyn, me thought, shoke with the showte;